[bksvol-discuss] Re: Romance novelists

Hi Cindy:

I posted the RITA winners on the list.

As you will see Susan Elizabeth won several Ritas. There are 13 different categories and it tries to encompass all types of romances. Historical and contemporary. And even within those there are subcategories such as Paranormal and suspense. I also was surprise to see the tess Gertsen novel there as well. I assume she was a mystery writer. Anyone read this one?

Grace
----- Original Message ----- From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Romance novelists


Thanks for that list, Grace. I've copied it. I'd like
the whole list, please. I'm gathering from the
authors' names I recognize that they're not
necessarily historical romance novels, just romance in
general. I've seen some in my bookstore but I've never
read any of them. I do have Jo Beverly on my list of
authors to read; I'll try someof the others.

I had at home The King's Mistress, by Terri Brisbin,
with an eye to fixing it at some point, but I started
to look through the book and it didn't seem to be very
well-written, compared to authors like Bertrice Small
and Philippa Gregory, so I re-donated it to the
bookstore.

Am I safe in assuming that the Rita Award winners
write well? I was disappointed in the Victoria Holt
book I validated, but I enjoyed the Susan Elizabeth
Phillips and the Barbara Delinsky books I did. Looking
at the synopses of the Tess Gerritsen books in the
collection, they seem to be mysteries. I gather from
her name on the list that t least The Surgeon is
romance as well?

I'd like the opinions of readers of some of the
authors on Grace's list, whenever you have the time
and inclination. You can write to me off list. I've
aleady determined, from what people have said, to read
Jo Beverly books, and hope I won't be disappointed.

Thanks in advance.

Cindy



wrote:

Hi all:

Sorry for the cross post.

Some time ago there was a big discussion on the list
about book awards.  Several lists of winners were
generated in hopes that someday bookshare would have
all these books.  I noticed that on Jake's site
there is a category called awards.  But those awards
I checked there were no records. I wonder if any one
still has those lists?

The reason for my post is that someone asked about
the Golden Medallion award for Romance which is now
called the Rita Award. I have found a complete list
of the winners since 1982. It's a fairly long list.
I can post it here if anyone is interested, or I can
send it privately.
Currently bookshare has 21 titles that have won this
award. Here's the link with the list of the titles.

http://www.jbrownell.com/bks/category.asp?id=27&sort=3 


Happy reading.


*****
Grace

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